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Smartphones overtake client PCs in 2011, says Canalys

Canalys has released its full, fourth-quarter 2011 country-level smartphone shipment estimates to clients, so completing the picture for the year. One notable result was that total annual global shipments of sm    

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Corning and Samsung Mobile Display form new OLED glass venture

Corning and Samsung Mobile Display have signed an agreement to establish a new equity venture for the manufacture of specialty glass substrates for the rapidly expanding organic light emitting diode (OLED) devi    

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Windows Phone exec Brandon Watson leaves Microsoft, headed to Amazon

There's some more corporate reshuffling going on in the Windows Phone universe this week, now that Brandon Watson has confirmed his departure from Microsoft. Watson, who served as head of the WP Developer    

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Apple pulls iPhone 4, 3GS and iPad 2 from German online store

Apple has been forced to remove some of its 3G products from the German online stores. This includes the iPhone 3GS, the iPhone 4 and the 3G version of the iPad 2. FOSS Patent's Florian Mueller says th     1 comment(s)

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Smartphone and PC vendors to treat WP8 differently, say sources

Although information indicates that Microsoft's next-generation handset platform, Windows Phone 8 (WP8), will support an array of technologies and functionalities, including dual-core CPUs, NFC, mobile wal    

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MediaTek sees 10-15% sequential drop in 1Q12 sales

IC design house MediaTek expects its consolidated revenues to decrease 10-15% sequentially in the first quarter of 2012 with gross margin slipping to 42-44% from 44.2% in the fourth quarter. A continued slowdow    

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ComScore: Android and iOS gallop ahead, US smartphone usage approaches 100 million

The latest report is in from ComScore, and as you might expect, the news is sunshine and roses for the crews at Google and Apple. Both companies platforms charted some worthwhile month-over-month gains, as Andr    

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Super Bowl viewers will be looking at their phones, too

Harris Interactive reports that almost 60% of mobile-phone users will be gazing at their phones while they watch the Super Bo -More-     

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Motorola win prompts Apple to pull devices in Germany

Apple suffered a double defeat in a German court today -- Motorola Mobility won a permanent injunction against the defendant' -More-     

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The Q4 2011 global handset and smartphone market in 4 charts

The numbers are in. All of the world's major handset and smartphone makers have reported their fourth quarter numbers, and now the rankings can begin. Check out the below four charts from Strategy Analytic    

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